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Word: rung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walt McCurdy returns to the starting lineup tonight for the first time in two months, as Bill Barclay's varsity basketball team travels to New Jersey to meet Princeton. The Tigers hold the number two spot on the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League ladder, one rung below Yale...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: McCurdy Returns to Varsity Five for Game at Princeton | 3/9/1949 | See Source »

...match won't be merely exercise for the varsity because the YMCA squad stands half way up the "A" league ladder while the Crimson shares a lower rung with the University Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Opposes Boston YMCA in Squash Skirmish | 1/11/1949 | See Source »

...sharing the Paris dinner table-and the headlines -with U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky and British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Bramuglia had reached the top of the ladder. In Argentina there is room for only one person (and wife) on the top rung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Top of the Ladder | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Last winter, the Crimson wound up on the bottom rung of the EIBL ladder. That was last winter. The current 16-man squad has more speed and play-making ability plus last year's 20-points-a-game freshman captain Ed Smith. "It's the best overall team we've had in the three years I've been here," Coach Barclay reports. "There are no space-fillers. All 16 men can go out on the court and play basketball...

Author: By Steve Cady, | Title: Varsity Five Opens Tonight | 12/4/1948 | See Source »

Perk Up. The ailing domestic airlines perked up a bit. In the twelve months which ended June 30, reported CAB, the 16 domestic carriers had trimmed their losses from $22,435,489 in 1947 to $15,494,310. In the profitable (spring) second quarter, they had rung up a $3,262,837 net v. $2,754,724 last year. As usual, Eastern Air Lines, Inc. was the healthiest; and last week it reported a nine-month net of $762,578 v. $409,809 in the 1947 period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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